Lulu Ann (Prouty) Streeter

Friday Nov. 22, 1940. Evening Republican. Lulu Ann Streeter, daughter of Amos and Mary Stone Prouty and a pioneer Harvey county, was born on a farm near New Boston, Mercer county, Illinois on June 14, 1857. She died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Harry Shaw, near Jefferson Island, Montana on Friday, November 15, 1940 at the age of 83 years, five months and one day. She was the youngest of a family of twelve children. In 1871 she came to Kansas with her parents and her brothers and sisters and their families and they all located in Harvey county. They were among the the earliest settlers in the county and in this pioneer environment she grew to womanhood On December 25, 1877, she married Frank E. Streeter, who had moved to Kansas from Vermont in 1876 and had settled on a farm south of the present town site of Hesston. Five children were born to this marriage. Her husband, Frank Streeter, was killed in a railroad accident September 13, 1898. One son, Elroy, died in infancy and a daughter Nina, passed away in 1933. She left Harvey county and moved to Lawrence, Kansas in 1909 where she resided until 1916 when she moved to Montana which has been her home since that time.The deceased is survived by two brothers, H. W. Prouty and L. A. Prouty, both of whom are residents of Harvey county. Also by three children; Mrs. Ruby Shaw, Jefferson Island, Montana, Floyd B. Streeter, Hays, Kansas and Ashby B. Streeter, of Glendale, California. Funeral services were held Thursday and burial was in Greenwood next to her husband.